The Secret Cold War History of the Missile That Launched America’s First Satellite
As part of the IGY, the Soviet Union vowed that it would launch an artificial satellite for space science. The U.S., not to ...
‘The Determined Spy’ Review: The Cold War Was His Playground
Frank Wisner’s career in espionage began in World War II, but his legacy was the creation of a CIA department that aimed to ...
Inside America’s little-known ‘hoax of the century’
Never in our history,” declared a TV anchor, “has there been such an avalanche of information, so little believed or believable.” This was no anguished lament over AI or social media. This was ...
Oleg Gordievsky, a key double agent in the Cold War, dies at 86
For more than a decade, as Cold War tensions threatened to escalate into all-out war, Mr. Gordievsky, a senior KGB officer, ...
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The coldest war: Inside America’s Arctic war game
In this episode of "In the Shadows with Jason Bellini," go inside America's Arctic war game. See what it's like to do battle ...
The forgotten history of the U.S.’s Cold War presence in Greenland
The villagers of Uummannaq were given just four days to leave their homes. It was the spring of 1953, the Cold War was nearing its peak and the United States had set its sights on this remote ...
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Cooperation, Coordination, and Strategic Denial: Echoes and Lessons from Cold War Oceania
With a fundamentally different playing field today, the United States and its Western partners should adapt, if not adopt, ...
US 'golden dome' back in play as 'insurance policy' decades after Reagan's Cold War-era proposal
The United State needs to invest in a Golden Dome defense system to prevent a nuclear electromagnetic pulse (EMP) strike from ...